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Danbury Times
Danbury, Fairfield County, Connecticut
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In Washington on Dec. 17, a majority report signed by Rear Admiral Stringham, Com. Gardner, Com. Van Bunt, and Engineer Sanger recommends New London over League Island for a navy yard and naval depot, citing advantages in access, anchorage, and healthfulness. A minority report by Prof. Bache and Lieut. Com. Thomas S. Phelps favors League Island for defensibility and supplies.
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Washington, Dec. 17.—The majority report upon the selection of a site for a navy yard and naval-depot, signed by Rear Admiral Stringham, Com. Gardner, Com. Van Bunt, and Engineer Sanger, makes choice of New London in preference to League Island, Narragansett Bay being objectionable on account of fogs. It claims for New London superiority in the case of access and obstructions from drift and moving ice, safe anchorage, adaptation to construction of dry docks, grading or filling site, range of tides, rapidity of currents and healthfulness of location. The report makes League Island and New London equal in facility for providing workmen and supplies, cost of site, security against attack, depth of water, and supply of fresh water, and gives League Island superiority in the facility of obtaining coal and iron, and fresh water, better for preserving the bottoms of vessels.
The minority report of Prof. Bache and Lieut. Com. Thomas S. Phelps, gives League Island preference in defensibility, against exposure to violent winds, area of anchorage, preparation of site, facility for procuring supplies, and deferring to New London in only two points, namely, health and exposure, and ice.
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Washington
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Dec. 17.
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majority report prefers new london; minority prefers league island.
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The majority report upon the selection of a site for a navy yard and naval-depot, signed by Rear Admiral Stringham, Com. Gardner, Com. Van Bunt, and Engineer Sanger, makes choice of New London in preference to League Island, Narragansett Bay being objectionable on account of fogs. It claims for New London superiority in the case of access and obstructions from drift and moving ice, safe anchorage, adaptation to construction of dry docks, grading or filling site, range of tides, rapidity of currents and healthfulness of location. The report makes League Island and New London equal in facility for providing workmen and supplies, cost of site, security against attack, depth of water, and supply of fresh water, and gives League Island superiority in the facility of obtaining coal and iron, and fresh water, better for preserving the bottoms of vessels. The minority report of Prof. Bache and Lieut. Com. Thomas S. Phelps, gives League Island preference in defensibility, against exposure to violent winds, area of anchorage, preparation of site, facility for procuring supplies, and deferring to New London in only two points, namely, health and exposure, and ice.